Fluorescent properties and conformational preferences of C-linked phenolic-DNA adducts

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1694-1709

  Omumi, Alireza ^a   Millen, Andrea L ^b   Wetmore, Stacey D ^b   Manderville, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ADDUCT; DNA HELIX; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENZYME MODIFICATION; ENZYME STABILITY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BASE PAIR MISMATCH; CARBON; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DEOXYGUANOSINE; DNA ADDUCTS; FLUORESCENCE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PHENOLS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 80054770333     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: 15205010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx200247f     Document Type: Article

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